“On a personal note, this was the first time I’ve ever spoken with a world leader entirely in a foreign language,” Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook, which is banned in China. “I consider that a meaningful personal milestone. It was an honor to meet President Xi and other leaders.”
“Reading is invaluable to our lives, and I believe both students and the teachers will benefit from this project,” headmaster Li Zhengchen said.
“The longer I use it,” wrote the Times’ Farhad Manjoo, “the more regularly it inspires the same sense of promise I felt when I used the first iPhone.”
“The University of Washington is a world-class institution, and we are lucky to have thousands of UW graduates inventing and pioneering in Seattle – including right here at Amazon,” said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a news release announcing the donation. “We’re proud to support UW as they expand their computer science program, which will benefit the whole community.”
“She was competitive shopping.” —?Los Angeles Fire Capt.?James Carson, on a woman who used pepper spray to gain an edge over her fellow Wal-Mart shoppers in the quest for cheap Xbox and Wii games as holiday shopping season began.
“Kindle Fire is the most successful product we’ve ever launched – it’s the bestselling product across all of?Amazon?for 11 straight weeks, we’ve already sold millions of units, and we’re building millions more to meet the high demand,” said Dave Limp, vice president of Kindle. “In fact, demand is accelerating – Kindle Fire sales increased week over week for each of the past three weeks.”
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“It is our job, if we want to be innovative and pioneering, to make mistakes and as the company has gotten big — we have 0 billion-plus in annual sales, 250,000-plus people — the size of your mistakes needs to grow along with that,” he said.
“I’m sure they have a tighter group than 20,” the man said, scanning the cities on Amazon’s green map of the United States, and pretty much echoing the sentiment that this is a big dog-and-pony show so Amazon can pit places against one another to get the sweetest deal. “It’ll probably go to a major metro area with a lot of tech talent.”
“It was my childhood dream to open a bookstore, so leading Amazon’s online bookstore is quite literally a dream come true — on a much larger scale,” she said.
“The launch of the non-stop route between Beijing and Brisbane will provide a convenient transport link that will enhance bilateral trade, business cooperation and tourism,” he added.